Consecrated Religious Life: The Changing Paradigms

Consecrated Religious Life: The Changing Paradigms
ISBN-10
1570756198
ISBN-13
9781570756191
Category
Religion / Christianity / History
Pages
267
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Orbis Books
Author
Diarmuid Ó Murchú

Description

In 1960, more than 1.3 million men and women religious served the Catholic Church. Today that number is under 900,000. When Diarmuid O'Murchu, a seminal thinker on religious life, predicted this trend in the 1970s many dismissed him as a prophet of doom. Here he re-imagines consecrated religious life as a process of birth-death-rebirth and paints a positive picture for the future that will again be different from that of the past but with the power to transform itself and flourish into the next century as something as fresh as daring as the founders' visions.

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